BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AS the Vybz Kartel murder trial continues, one of the lead investigators of the alleged murder of Clive 'Lizard' Williams testified of the unbearable stench at the Dancehall Artiste home.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Vernal Thompson, who is in charge of criminal investigations for the St Andrew North Police Division, testified that he had observed a foul odour, "like the scent of a dead animal", inside the Havendale home of entertainer Vybz Kartel where Williams is believed to have been killed.
According to the Jamaican Observer, DS Thompson also testified that the inside of the house was set on fire following his first visit to the premises on August 22, in relation to the probe. He said the caution tape he strung around the perimeter of the premises was torn down.
“Additionally, Thompson, who was being led in his examination-in-chief by attorney Jeremy Taylor during the murder trial in the Home Circuit Court, said that on a subsequent visit to the house, on September 30 he noticed that the back of the house had been demolished,” the newspaper informed.
The Observer also stated that Thompson made mention that he tried ascertaining who was responsible for the demolition, but his findings were to no avail. As it relates to the foul odour, Thompson testified that he noticed it when he went to the home on August 29, 2011. He said he detected the scent in the living room area and another room in the house.
“Moments earlier, Thompson testified that he had smelt ‘a strong fragrance similar to that of Fabuloso disinfectant’. He said he detected the ‘same fragrance’ in ‘another cubicle inside the house’ on Swallowfield Avenue,” the news entity reported.
But it was after the lunch adjournment, the witness testified that he received information to cause him to search for Williams' remains in the overgrowth of the Dyke Road in Portmore, St Catherine and the Stony Hill area, but yet again his attempts were to no avail.
Vybz Kartel, whose real name is Adidja Palmer; Andre 'Mad Suss' St John; Shane Williams; Shawn 'Shawn Storm' Campbell and Kahira Jones are on trial for the alleged murder of Williams on August 16, 2011 over the disappearance of two illegal guns.
